Search results for “5 questions” Showing 761 results Finding the brightest stars in a constellation of writing tips Conference panels can be frustrating things. Several subject experts droning on, absorbed with the minutiae of their own work, sometimes failing to make bigger points, often repeating what other panelists… January 18, 2019 An annotated project that “breaks the ‘rules’ in all the right ways” EDITOR’S NOTE: While we did not annotate this project by ProPublica Illinois, we are including it in “Annotation Tuesday” because the story itself, as published, was an innovative example of… January 15, 2019 “Everyone likes to reminisce, but no one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.” —From "The Three-Body Problem" by Cixin Liu January 1, 2019 A “final” phone call from the wildfires inspires an unusual, intimate story written under the fire of deadline A conversation with Corina Knoll of The Los Angeles Times: She broke with convention and just wrote it "how I felt it should be told" December 19, 2018 How to crack the code of live storytelling with Pop-Up Magazine "Ephemeral" true stories that inform, surprise and delight December 18, 2018 How film class led to fighting wildfires which led to finding a home which led to a memoir In a full-circle illustration of the way life sometimes imitates art, screenwriting led Sarah Berns to smokejumping. Then smokejumping led to a cinematic memoir, written with a director’s eye and… December 11, 2018 Braving the Drake Passage, swimming with leopard seals and interviewing a non-talker From the archives: National Geographic writer Craig Welch turns silent subjects into the compelling voices of climate change December 5, 2018 Serendipity brings two men together on the football field, and in the rest of life A story that garners wide acclaim, gets multiple plays across ESPN and draws tweets from Reese Witherspoon is not your everyday deadline fare. For most writers, it will never happen.… November 13, 2018 Telling the video story: Scatter visual breadcrumbs, keep the camera steady and shoot from the heart Eric Seals on the secret to successful video: It's about the story, not the gear October 26, 2018 Finding a narrative in “our most urgent national conversation”: the one about guns How three reporters, a national news chain and 21 strangers who met to talk became a 5,000-word tale with character, intimacy, structure and drama October 23, 2018 Previous 1 … 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 … 77 Next
